Love Rhombus

At the end of our last episode, Bestie was in love with Paul Lancefield again.

Will they finally end up together?

Listen in to find out.

And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!

Episode Transcript

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I've known my Besty for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Diaryof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. Or Namesand identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We'realso staying anonymous, so if you think
you know us, no you don't. Welcome back to Barri of Diary of
My Bestie. Hello Besty, HelloBesty. Sorry, my mouth is falling

(00:24):
over itself. So what should Icall you? Duesty? I'll take that,
Bri. It might actually be easierto identify each other when we're talking.
It's like I'll take that. I'lltake on that mantle. How are
you going? It's been a day. I think it's been a year of

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days, it has, but I'malive, excellent. We're here to record
some more more tales from your diaryand I'm very much looking forward to it.
So can you give us a quick, tiny recap of what happened last
time so we know what we gointo. Well. Last time, I
have my heart broken by Trevor thedance teacher m H. And then I

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had some little projects in my searchfor a new love. Yes, projects
is a very stute way to describeit all. So let's kick it off.
Let's get into it, because isthere scandal coming this episode? Possibly?
Excellent, very good. I shallget comfy, let's go. So

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this time we're going back to mynormal diary from the Countdown Diary. For
those catching up, there were twodiaries in play, a Countdown short form
diary and a longer long prose diary, so swopping between, well, are
so that means possibly back to longentries again? Excellent? All right,

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long winded, I am, Iam prepared. Okay, it is Friday,
March the sixteenth, nineteen ninety DearDiary. It's been ages since I
last wrote, okay, and ithas been ages in this diary, but
it's only been two days since theCountdown Diary. That's what that was the

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look of confusion on my face.I'm like, hang on, no,
you just yeah, okay, you'reapologizing to the diary. Yes, sorry,
Diary. At the moment, Ilike Paul Lancefield again, recurring character.
Yes, back for a second seasonor a third or fourth I can't

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remember. I've lost count he's reoccurring. He's like Janis on Friends. He
just comes back with that's perfect,Yeah, but without the annoying laugh us.
Junior dancers are performing at a discgo tomorrow night at the skating rink.
Okay, she's still doing the dancing, So I am, even though

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I don't probably don't like my danceteacher anymore. Very true. Yes,
because of all the drama. Yes, I am going to Megan's tomorrow morning
and bringing Rachel home with me.We are going to see Paul. So
why are you bringing Rachel home?I don't know, so I said,

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disco tomorrow night, going to Megan'stomorrow morning. We may have been having
a last minute rehearsal. Okay,Meghan's house, because wasn't isn't the thing
where part of you, part ofyour group would do one thing and the
part of the group would do theother thing. Yeah, yeah, so
it could have been that, andthen bringing Rachel over to my house until
the discom. Ok yep, we'regoing to see Paul plot dickens again.

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Yeah, Kevin Samson likes me.Okay, so new character, bang straight
off the bat. Let's go.Well, if you remember, he was
actually going to be one of myprojects. I think it was project number
three. Okay, all right,So he's the backup, backup. Yeah,
he's the Prince Harry of this situation. Yeah, he's the spare Yeah.

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Yeah. If things don't work outwith Paul, I might consider going
with him, but only if heasks me. So you he've established that
he likes you. You are opento the idea if this other one doesn't
work, but you still have thepre requisite of being asked. Yeah,

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he's got to ask me out.Okay. Can someone prompt him to ask
you out knowing that now that he'ssafe in the knowledge that you are open
to that suggestion, or does haveto be completely autonomous action by him.
I don't know. I'm guessing completelyautonomous. Okay. Maybe it's just because

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that would be good for my ego. Maybe high standards being said here,
yeah, or maybe I'm just sickof doing with the chasing and then things
not working out. So to befair, you did some chasing of people
who didn't even know you were they'llbeing chased. So a lot of a
lot of chasing, secret chasing,invisible chasing. I don't know, you're

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developing standards many chasings. Yes,I'm watching Greece on TV tonight. I
know all the words to the songs. I think that's prerexit of kids our
age, yes, but also becauseif you remember the year before we did
Greece as our school musical. True, I'm going to read a bit of

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you now diary, so I'll goSo you went back and reflected and read
read previous entries. Okay, Yeah, It's always been my thought of like,
yes, someone would go back andread their own diary years down the
track, but active while the diary, I guess, is still fresh.
Yeah. I did it quite frequently. Okay. Was it to refresh information

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or get a sense of your prosestyle or was it just something you did
because it was the thing to read. I think it was more a reflection
thing. Okay, yeah, later, I just read over some of this
diary and g I've gone through alot of guys. Okay. Yeah,

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well, nice to see old bestieand myself are on similar thought pains,
same page. Yeah, it's theywere pre podcasting, so little did they
know that they were putting an entryinto that podcast that many years down the
track, would be shared by thepodcast. Okay, all right, Greece

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will be on in a minute,so I'm only writing for a bit I
want to finish this diary before mybirthday, so I have to write pretty
often. Greece was on last night? Was it? Yes? Oh that's
cool. As it's sparkling back mybrain, I'm like, yeah, I've
just watched Greece. Well, Icaught parts of Greece going in and out

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of the house, and like,oh, that was on last night.
I don't think i've watched it sinceOlivia died. It's interesting to watch it
with today's lens, Like I knowthat, but it's like if you really
sat down and you watch it,you're like, once you get past the
creepy idea of like twenty seven,twenty eight, even thirty two year olds

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playing teenagers, even with that context, you sort of like this was a
kid, Like this was played atlike school, like school movie nights and
stuff like that. Yes, yeah, I remember. There were definitely some
changes to the song lyrics when wedid it a school musical. It's like,

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yeah, we're not allowed to seeingthose words, but we were allowed
to watch them. Oh, thewords to grease Lightning. If you break
it down, it's like it's likehang on, hang on. So yeah,
I think probably what a lot ofteenage boys would thinking well, I
like, for me, I didn't. It didn't really click until oh,

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probably watch it when I was liketwenty five, and I'm like oh,
because it was just like there wasnothing at that time I watched it.
There was no knowing winks or nodsto go like, hey, this means
something else. So you're just like, oh, yeah, yep, that's
that's the word. So I don'tunderstand it, but yep, okay.

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And I didn't want to. Ididn't want to admit I didn't know what
it meant because they were just normallyrics until I were like, oh,
okay, so yeah, mom,what does Yeah, I won't say it.
Yeah. Mask is on TV sometimesoon. I reckon that is an

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excellent film. Now we talking aboutMask, the Jim Carrey movie or Mask
the epic cartoon series where the heroeshad masks that connected to their bodies,
which then connected to their vehicles,and I had a few of those toys.
Neither a. We're talking about themovie with Share and Eric Staltz about

(09:26):
the boy who had cranial diaphysial displeasure. Okay, based on the true story
of Rocky Dennis. So what washis superpower? Well, he didn't have
one, but he was cool.My dudes had cool masks that plugged into
stuff. So well there was motorbikes, the motorbikes and maskers. Well,

(09:50):
yeah, I do remember Mask thecartoon, but I've never actually seen the
Jim carry movie. Have you neverseen Mask? Never? Okay, well,
look, I'm not going to sayit's great cinema that we need to
run out and watch right now,but next time we'll sit down. And
it's it's very Jim Carrey. Likeif you had to say, hey,
what's a movie that sums up JimCarrey, you could put Ace Venturer to

(10:15):
the side a little bit and yougo Mask because he had he had pretty
much most creative control over his rolein it and his improvisations and stuff like
that, and it was very muchlike, Yeah, it's peak Jim Carrey,
quintessential and has Karendia, isn't itas well? Of course? Yeah,
and some other actors who are takinga downgrade in in roles, like

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you know the classic eighties nineties copswho starred in Everything to Do with Cops
and they were classic cops. Yeah, they were in this movie, and
you like, wow, did yousign on before or after Jim Carrey and
is the has the check cleared?Essentially? Is the question. You can
see a few of them going,yeah, I'm here. I should probably

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check that out sometime. We'll watchit. It's fair all right, We'll
add it to our viewing list.Yes, Hill High had a bomb scare
today. Scary. Mm hmm.Well yeah, it's in the name.
It's on the tin. You wouldn'tcall it a bomb mild like shock.

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It's a bomb scared. It's meantto scare, a bomb disruption, Yes,
a bomb me whatever. Yeah,this disco is going to be so
excellent because I get to show offsome of my dancing skills to all my
friends. Nice and is this thedancing skills you've developed in the group where
you're dancing with? So are wetalking a U three going to bust into

(11:50):
synchronized dance moves like every classic eightiesnineties teen movie. No, we were
dancing on like a little makeshift stagewhich was actually on the back of a
ute that have been driven into theskating rink. Okay, I think I
have confused. So you're going tothe place you're performing, it's not just

(12:11):
a general disco that you're turning upto it is a general disco, but
we're performing at the disco. Okay, yes, I was. There'll be
a lot of people I know there. I thought you were going to just
a general disco and a performing later. But yeah, I get it now.
Sorry. Yep. Yeah, Jennyand Kim stupid tarts are wearing off

(12:33):
the shoulder full skirted black dresses.They are going to seem so overdressed,
ha ha. And are these generalpublic or dances? No? They was
the two Jenny is the Jenny Laundragan, the bossy one that okay, yep,
that I hate. So basically,we didn't really have a costume,
but we were all going to bedressing in black, okay, and those

(12:56):
two, yeah, had these fancydresses and the rest diverse. We're kind
of quite casual and in stuff thatyou can actually dance in without accidentally flashing
your underwear. But is that partof the is that part of the plan
though? What's that flashing the underwear? Yeah? Well I did say they're
stupid tarts. They maybe, butthey may be smart tarts because they're dressing

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appropriately for the outcome thereafter. Yea, for me, they are there may
be method in their badness. Yes, I'll write more later bye, But
I didn't because now it's Wednesday,March the twenty first, nineteen ninety Dare

(13:41):
Diary. The disco was good andthat's all I say about the disco.
Okay. Is there any entries inthe other diary that I no, Paul
knows how I feel about him?Okay, Now excuse my my brain as

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I'm trying to catch up to thelarge web. So this is the guy
that you currently are re liking again, not the not the dance teacher who
you don't like. Yeah, DebraCoole is going out with Kevin Samson.
Okay, So Kevin shut himself inthe foot by liking you. But well,

(14:31):
this is going out with my bestfriend. Where did you get the
intel from that he liked You don'tknow? And was it a case of
he was No, I won't.I won't jump ahead because it might spoil
it. But was he Was hetrying a pincer movement by getting close to
you through your friend? Oh that'svery possible, or the other way around

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could be or I hate to breakyour heart, it could have been that
he actually liked your friend, passingon the messages confused yep, or maybe
he was just like, look,either one of them will do, so
I'll just tell both of them Ilike him and ask any captain and any
ports of storm, Yeah, exactly, any port in the storm, any

(15:16):
port in the store. I'm notgoing to say what I normally say,
an important storm. They are atthe school social right now, probably getting
together already. Okay, So theschool social is well, exactly basically a
school dance on a Wednesday. Yeah. They were usually on a weeknight.

(15:39):
And were you ever allowed to goto these? Yeah? But for whatever
reason, I'm not feeling like going, so I'm not there right. I'm
getting pretty popular around the guys nowas friends, of course, and I'm
popular at Hill High too. Aguy who sits next to Rachel in English,

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Chris writes to me, Okay,all right, so a place that's
got a bomb scare thinks you're hot. Actually okay, yeah, so interesting,
like the whole concept of popularism,and like you're getting really popular with
the boys, what does that mean? Maybe they're just talking to me.

(16:23):
I mean you have in one nightgot with one hundred and fifty three guys,
so seven hundred and fifty two actuallyI think seven hundred and fifty two.
See who whoever started that got theireyes got too big for their belly
because you couldn't fit seven hundred peoplein the skating rink. No, one
hundred and fifty two, you'd golike it's gone for record. A solid

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fifty two would have been more plausible. You're going to break it down to
per minute, so yeah, youhave a few minutes with each one,
so you can't get too greedy whenyou're trying to bread lies about slots exactly.
Time management. People. School isgoing good. I'm trying to be

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really good and do my work andget it right and stuff. That's the
whole missing part of the whole contextof the thing. This is school.
You're going to school the thing.You've got all this social life happening around,
and you're like, oh, yeah, that's right to go to school
as well. I'm supposed to belearning in school. Was the excuse for
all the stuff to happen. Yeah, it's like it's like Beverly Hills High

(17:32):
purely existed as a backdrop for nineo two and oh all the personal stuff
around there, Yeah exactly, andyou've you've added a new location you've added
the peach pit being this high schoolhigh or whatever it is, that hill
high that's your peach pit interior.Sorry if this is boring you, but
I want to keep my diary upto date, including the boring stuff.

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Okay, anyway, I must goby. It's good that you're showing commitment.
Yes, so much commitment that Idon't write for a few more days.
Announces, Saturday, March twenty fifth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary, you

(18:21):
know how I gave Paul that TeddyBear? Okay, yeah, I don't,
but apparently my diary does old youdoes well. He said, I'm
going to give you something for that. Okay, okay, well all right,

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are you guys dating? I don'tthink so. Yep. Then he
went on about how he wants tobuy me a big diamond, so sweet
he likes me. I can tellbold claims from him. Yeah. I
told him that there were one hundredsteps, and he said he couldn't wait

(19:07):
that long one hundred steps to whatexactly, I don't know, maybe one
hundred steps before I could be hisgirlfriend. That's quite a larger task to
set a person. Yeah, Idon't know what the steps were. Again,

(19:29):
the over inflation in this time islike seven hundred and fifty guys.
No, one hundred steps. No, maybe a good ten, make a
solid ten. Maybe I just didn'twant to rush into things because you know,
give it at least thirty six hours. Yeah, exactly. Okay,
all right, well this is developinginteresting. Yep. I'm having a big

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talk with him tomorrow afternoon. Thenhe's walking meter skating if it's not raining,
does he skate? Yes? Okay, all right, so he's taking
you to escape. Yeah, andhe lives not far from me, so
my guess he was probably walking tomy house we're going to have our big
talk, and then he was gonnawalk me to skating from there. Okay,

(20:17):
yep, anyway he must go.Two Thursday, March twenty nine,
nineteen ninety Okay, dear Diary,I like Stuart McFarland again. Okay,

(20:42):
okay, yep, that's what somethingmissing there. I guess Paul and I
had our talk, our big talk, and maybe decided would be better off
as friends or something, or heknew he was told what one hundred steps
would be. Okay, yeah,So Stuart McFarlane I liked the year before

(21:07):
he was in grade seven when Iwas in grade eight. But now he's
in grade eight, I'm in gradenine and we're at the same school.
Okay, right, yeah, okay, it's it's a little bit hard to
keep track of it all the time, but yep, okay, it's okay.
I like Stu at McFarlan again,and I hope Jemima doesn't find out.

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Okay, So are we talking aboutanother human or the character from school?
So Jemima was a girl in myform class. If you remember,
our form class had kids from allgrades you know, Oh yeah, yeah,
that's right. She was also ingrade eight and she had a big
crush on him. So okay,I was like, just decide question what

(21:57):
okay, you just you've worked outthe like this person you're Is it a
thing that they've done? Is itlike what is it that is a that
sparks? It might just be Idon't know, running into each other in
the corridors or okay, I don'tknow, is it is it sort of

(22:18):
like not not to be that typeof thing, but like in the with
young boys, like she talked tome, she's my friend. I like
it is that type of stuff oris it a bit more okay. No,
for me, it was a boypaid me attention, and if I
thought he was cute, then itwould be oh, okay, okay,
maybe there's something in this. Allright, that's all it took. I'll

(22:42):
take that. Yeah. I toldBelinda stan Wick. She was also in
my form class and in his grade. Okay, so you're you're you're employing
your network to to set the thesnare, the trap. Possibly, but

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she said that Stewart wants to goout with her, and then in brackets
bullshit, Okay, well yeah,okay, well yeah, this is this
is what I see. I've neverinvolved in this type of stuff during my
school. So it's like it's like, okay, well he wanted to go

(23:26):
Are you going out with him?No? Well then what's the problem.
That's the Yeah, okay, it'sit's it's fascinating. It doesn't matter anyway
because she's going out with Raymond.Okay. So okay, all right,
yep, yep, And you stillhave you're still maintaining the aspect of they

(23:48):
want you, want them to askyou. So we'll see a little bit
of back phil here. I startedliking Stewart again at skating on Sunday,
Okay, it really is two feetand a heartbeat with you, Isn't it
really said in the most loving way, But it's like, yes, person

(24:11):
human alive. I like And rumorhas it that he likes me too?
Where are these rumors coming from?I don't know. I think that's half
your problem. I don't know.I think half your problem is that your
information network is faulty. Oh absolutely, I think it's going to be true

(24:33):
on the school grapevine. True.Okay, he's coming back from school camp
tomorrow at twelve thirty pm. Okay, so this information has come through a
third party and he's not even there, like this would have been old information.
Then well, it's possible that itwas something that happened on the Sunday

(24:57):
at skating when I started liking him. Okay, but oh okay, so
that was the previous Sunday and notreally adjacent to this entry. Yeah,
because the Sunday would have been thetwenty six or something along the lines,
and then he would have gone tocamp on the Monday. Okay. Yeah,

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I am trusting Belinda to give hima note from me just to say
call me. I really need totalk. I'm just going to say your
trust in the communications network of notepassing has bitten you in the ass before
it has, so we'll see whathappens. Okay, it says anyway,
I must go. Okay. Nowit is Tuesday, April third, nineteen

(25:51):
ninety. Okay, dear diary,I am going out with Stewart. Okay,
all right, I hope it lastswell. I think that's by default
gone out. This guy had twoweeks, will do Yes, that seems
to be about the average. Okay, yep, Well, Stuart's now main

(26:14):
player, he's got the upgrade,he's on the call sheet. He is.
I told him how I had thatdream that I was kissing him,
and he said he hopes it comestrue. Okay, have you mentioned this
kissing dream before? Or I don'tthink I've mentioned the kissing dream? Okay,
but it may have happened in betweenentries. Okay, like, yeah,

(26:40):
maybe we did talk on the phonethat weekend and I had the dream
then, Okay, all right,Yeah, you're fourteen or thirteen or fourteen,
and your salacious dreams are I gaveyou guy a kiss? Yeah?
I think it would have been quitea chaste kissing dream. Okay. He

(27:02):
is such a little sweetie, poorfragile boys about to get his heart destroyed.
Jemima knows and she hates me.What a dog? Okay. The
cruel double arching, the double crossingworld of your relationship is like, I

(27:22):
know you've been keen on this blokefor a while, but he likes me,
so you're a bitch. Yeah,okay? How dare you feel heartbroken
that the guy you like has goneout with someone else? Too bad?
So sad? Is it? Allright? Lots of people hate Stuart because
he's going out with me instead ofJemima or them. Stewart doesn't care because

(27:47):
he is happy and I definitely am. Okay, So people aren't happy that
he's going out with you instead ofthis other person or other undescripted people.
Yes, okay. He was quitepopular in his grade amongst the girls because
he was he was a spunk.He had a mullet with a slight spiky
top. You know, all right, it's enough to dream about him.

(28:11):
So yeah, yeah, and skating, and he's a skater boy as well,
and he goes skating. Yeah,we started going out yesterday, just
before the end of recess. Okay, doesn't say who asked? Too?
Mm hmmm, Kimberly met him andshe likes him. That's good. Yes,

(28:33):
I very much trusted her opinion,you know, being an older girl
and a woman of the world.Oion was important. Must go now,
see you later, Okay, Okay, it feels like he's building to something.

(28:55):
Friday, April sixth, nineteen ninetyDear Diary, Stuart came around tonight.
Interesting. He was really polite toeveryone and even shook hands with Dad.
Then destroyed me. We stayed inmy room and talked. Hey,
okay, was that code open doorpolicy? Was it coded language for anything?

(29:18):
Okay? No, we did talk. We sat on the bed and
he lay on my pillow. Ithink this is it, okay, famous
last word, she says, forthe eleventh time this year. I don't
know what it meant. Obviously notwe're going to be together forever. But
maybe I meant something that lasts morethan two weeks or well that thing like

(29:44):
at that age, the concept ofthis is it meaning this is your bond
pairing. So this is so Idon't think. I don't think you don't
know what it is because you haven'tdefined what it is. All you that
know is that this is it andit will work itself out over time.
Yeah. Maybe this is what MikePatton was singing about in epic by Faith

(30:07):
No More. Possibly. Yeah.Saturday, April seventh, nineteen ninety,
Dear Diary, Stuart rang he talksa lot about his father. Okay,
so his father had died a yearor two before, Okay, so at

(30:30):
a little bit of emotional part ofit. So yeah, I suppose he
misses him a lot, especially sincehe's now the only boy in his family,
so that familiar role would be puton his shoulders. Yeah, exactly.
Me. Stuart and Meghan are goingto the movies tomorrow to see Milo

(30:52):
and otis bold call interesting date?Interesting date movie, Yeah, very cute.
And now we're fast forwarding to Sunday, April fifteen, nineteen, so
jumping a couple of weeks ahead,Yeah, which I'm guessing would be probably
the Easter holidays school Easter Holidays soundsabout right, Dear Diary. Auntie,

(31:21):
Glenda and Uncle Bert are up.We're all going bowling tomorrow. I might
invite Stuart. Okay, So let'ssee how long has it been. We
started going out on the second ofApril and it's now the fifteenth of April
were together. Yeah, I'm tryingto write in this diary every day from

(31:45):
now on, even if it's onlyhalf a page, she says, after
saying the same thing three weeks agoand not yeah all the time. Okay,
I got Stuart's Easter present, redchulip egg and a little stuffed brown
duck that squeaks. Okay, allright, it's getting some gift into the

(32:09):
gift gift portion of the relationship.Yeah, I'm listening to all my tapes
one by one, cassette tapes.Is this a general thing that you often
did or is it just like,hey, I'm another project is now that
I've got a dude, I'm justlistening to music. Might just be a

(32:30):
school holiday thing. Okay, let'swork through all my casetts. I'm only
up to the second one. Ohokay, well it's on the same part
as I ride in my diary everyday. Yeah. I've started playing fantasy
games like Dungeons and Dragons, onlythey're easier. Okay, I actually remember

(32:51):
these These were like little magazine typebooks, and you didn't have to play
them as a group. You couldplay them solo. Had paradise yet,
so I remember those happy Easter.It will be two weeks with Stuart tomorrow.
This is gonna last. See ifonly you didn't mention it. And

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then my trying to write in thisdiary every day didn't work. Shock,
I've skipped Monday and now it's Tuesday. April seventeenth, nineteen ninety. Okay,
Dear Diary. We went bowling yesterday. I came last and then second
last. Stuart couldn't come because he'sgone to visit his auntie. He's giving

(33:45):
me a call as soon as hegets back. Okay. Meghan Henderson came
bowling instead. She adores Auntie Glenda. That is real easy because Glenda is
totally chilled. Nice she was Sheis still pretty cool Arnie. Anyway,

(34:06):
we got to sleep about one am, and then Megan woke me up at
six. I could have killed hera right, so she actually came and
slept over. She must have.I don't know what I'm doing today.
Truth. Wednesday, April eighteen,nineteen ninety, Dear Diary. Yesterday Meghan

(34:30):
and I went to East Point Shops. I got five hairbands blue, black,
white, yellow and purple, ablack lace scrunchy, electric blue nail
polish Ballerina, Pink Nail Polish,Smash Hits, Yes, a Smash Hits

(34:51):
magazine. Do you remember that?I do? And two potatoes scollops.
Oh wow, hopefully you ate themthere not on my I would say.
So. Dad and I have rentedfive videos. I'm guessing maybe Dad was

(35:14):
on holidays from work. Suspiria,Blood Bath, Communion, Iron Master,
and Hell's Angels Forever. Okay,so your dad picked all. Dad was
my horror movie watching Buddy. Okay. We both liked motorcycles, so that

(35:38):
was probably, you know, fivefor five dollars, one of those.
They all sound like weeklies. Yeah, it would have been video easy too,
before Blockbuster. Today I got somecrayons and a Pound Puppy coloring book.
Ha ha, Really I did PoundPuppies. That's a flashback poum puppies.

(36:02):
Yeah, okay, and crazy withit. I still love coloring.
I've got an entire trolley of coloringgear now, but I'm guessing at this
time it was probably not very coolcoloring when you're thirteen. I just appreciate
the fact you've got a trolley's somewherefield with color coloring things, and now

(36:23):
it's all sorts of things. Kickingin the back of my head is like,
where'd you steal the trolley from?And I've got this mental picture of
you running down the road next toyour street with your trolley going quick,
get in the house. No,it's like one of those Ikea trolleys,
like the drink tear, not stolen. I got it as a gift,
Thank you, Emma. Okay,all right, it's funnier in my head.

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Stuart rang We're going to see Lookwho's talking at the movies on Friday?
Another solid choice. Okay, Rachel'scoming shopping with me tomorrow. I
must go now, alright tomorrow.So was Rachel coming shopping with you tomorrow

(37:08):
significant or is it just a Iwould have been two friends hanging out on
the holidays. Okay, So notin preparation for the solo movie date?
Nah, okay, just hanging out. Thursday, April nineteenth, nineteen ninety
Dear Diary, Well, okay,I saw Sean Fielding today and I really

(37:39):
like him a lot. Okay,all right, no kidding, I'm ringing
him tomorrow. All right. Doyou remember Sean Fielding? I do.
He was not the reason I'm inpain. He was the will you pash
me? Guy? Yeah, butyou've found the one. You found it?

(38:01):
I found the one. Yeah.Martin Borrodale was meant to be coming
home from boarding school these holidays,but he hasn't arrived yet, okay.
And he is of importance because he'san old friend who went to boarding school
instead of my high school. No, hang on, I think he started

(38:23):
going to our high school and thenhe was naughty and got shipped off to
boarding school. Okay, and heabsolutely hates it because we've kept in touch,
we've been writing letters. All right, What can I tell Stuart?
I'll right after Irene Sean Okay,all right, well, okay, I

(38:47):
found it best just to sit hereand ride away to this because yeah,
Friday, April the twentieth, nineteenninety dear day, I rang Hannah and
told her everything. So, yeah, my friend Hannah, and this is

(39:07):
a very deliberate choice of friend totalk about this with because she once went
out with Sean. Okay, huh, Okay, she said, Sean is
a really nice guy to go with, and I should go for it.
Okay. Interesting, interesting advice froma friend's like you already got someone.

(39:30):
Yeah, And also this other personso much that other people wanted to go
out with him, and you werevillain because you slagged him. Yeah.
So, yes, you've got thisreally expensive BMW, but that toy ot
over there. It's fine. Irang Sean but nobody was home. Okay,

(39:55):
I'm going skating tomorrow. I don'tknow if I should tell Stuart then,
or write him a letter, orget someone else to talk to him
for me, or what if Iwas there a go at least talk to
this Seawan duke, because if it'sa no, then you're throwing away,

(40:15):
right. Yeah. I forgot tomention yesterday that when I went shopping with
Rachel, I got the Dream ALittle Dream soundtrack. It is so excellent.
Okay, yeah, good little distractionfrom the moral quandaries you're facing.
But yes, yeah, I mightbe staying at Rachel's tomorrow night. I'll

(40:37):
write more later, Okay, allright, but now it's Saturday, April
twenty first, nineteen ninety So thenext day, dear Diary. I rang
Sean last night, but he couldn'ttalk for long because he had to have
team. I rang Stuart and toldhim he was mildly upset. Okay,

(41:06):
yeah, yeah, I went skatingthis afternoon. Sean couldn't come because of
motocross. Okay, okay, butthat's probably one of the things I found
attractive motorcycle. But Stuart it's goingto be there, isn't he that's skating?

(41:28):
Wells that I went skating but didn'tmention Stuart, So maybe he didn't
go because I break his heart andhe just smash into a thousand pieces.
Rachel and Paul Lancefield are going out. Okay, that's it. They've gone
out before, haven't they, Oris this the first time I think they've
gone out before, or they atleast liked each other. Yeah, Paul

(41:54):
is coming around tomorrow and he's ringingSean to tell him I like him and
ask him if he's coming bisicating onSunday. Okay, so all right,
Paul's going to be your You're inbetween, Okay, all right, I
don't know if I'm going yet.All this cavalier attitude is really chocking.

(42:17):
He's like, yeah, this Seanguy, don't know if he likes me.
He won't answer the phone, can'ttalk for very long. He's liking
he probably likes someone else, butsure, yeah, you know, on
the off chance I'm just going todrop you now. At least I wasn't
going out with someone while I wasalso chatting up someone else. That was

(42:38):
probably okay. I was probably like, I've got to break up with this
guy. It's not fair if I'mgoing out with him when I've got a
crush on someone else. That's that'ssome moral Yeah. Yeah, Paul and
I are going shopping next Saturday becausehe wants to buy a top for Rachel.

(43:00):
Okay, so he wanted top passionadvice, a top top or a
lacy top like a T shirt.Okay, all right, Yeah, must
go now and have tea. Sunday, April twenty second, nineteen ninety Dear
Diary, I went skating. Irang Sean. I'm guessing because he wasn't

(43:27):
at skating. He said, Isounded sweet on the phone, like a
mouse. I asked him if hewas going with anyone, and he said
no. I asked him if heliked anyone, and he said he likes
me. Okay, okay, he'sringing me either tomorrow or Tuesday. We

(43:52):
didn't go to the same school.He went to a boys' school. I
get that, But if you've establisheda kinship of liking just deal, then
there's no need for people are tooinefficient. Yeah, I can't wait for
school tomorrow to tell everyone the goodnews. Haha. I break this guy's
heart because this other one might likeme lowell. Candy Goodrich asked Sean out

(44:17):
once. Okay, do you rememberCandy Goodrich was the girl that he was
in that performing group with. AndI remember, but I'm a little bit
worried about how gleeful you sound aboutthat fact, he said, no,
ha ha, there we go.Okay, Hubris before the fall, yep,

(44:38):
Okay, now we're going to skipa week to Sunday, April twenty
ninth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary,normal day. I changed my room around.
It looks excellent. I don't likeSean anymore. No particular reason.

(45:05):
Bestie has just thrown his headlines downin disgust and ye like a table flip.
I'm right, okay, okay,ye, yeah, no particular reason,
just doing. Yeah. I practicedsinging and music and did a bit
of classical dancing. So get screagedStewart like you like Na, Na,

(45:30):
and just like is Stuart gone forevernow? No more it mentions of him?
I cannot confirm nor deny poor Stewart. You're playing him like yo yo,
I'm on team Stewart. Yeah heshould be. To be fair,

(45:52):
you were. You are a livingembodiment of the dude looking behind his shoulder
at the other chick me. That'swhat you are. I'm terrible. I
am terrible. I did my historyassignment, it's pretty good. And I
started my math's assignment, which ispretty easy. I'm getting into a good

(46:14):
routine with my homework. Okay,Rachel and Paul are still going out.
I know that's a shocking thing thatpeople go out for longer than a week
or so. Yeah, yep,Paul got his braces off. He looks
so different. Okay, yep.The birds are fine. Cleo has been

(46:37):
a real silk. She is onher bean bag covered in a jumper at
present. And this is my catfor you as a home Okay, your
cat? Yeah yeah. Reading theWar with mister Wizzle. Favorite song opposites

(46:58):
a tract. Favorite quote. Idon't know what this quot's from, but
it says he yeah, no idea, no, unless it was from like
like Steve rkle laugh from Family Mattersor something like that. Don't I all

(47:25):
right, Monday, April thirty,nineteen ninety Dear Diary, a B day
today, so I've given the dayof grade. It was a B grading
grading day since be for Breakinghearted.I like Patrick Martin. Okay, yep,

(47:49):
next player up on board. Hestill likes his ex girlfriend Andrea.
But then again, when he knowsI like him, he might change his
mind. I doubt it though.It's just so transient, this whole relationship
type of thing. Yep, hedoesn't know yet. I might drop a
few hints through Rodney Garland, whois in the same machinery class. Okay,

(48:13):
all right, the birds are fine. The cat's in a weird mood.
Musical practice is okay. My schoolroutine is going excellent. I played
touch football at lunch today and I'mgetting good. Have to get my beauty

(48:34):
sleep for Patrick tomorrow. Hi.Reading the War with mister Whizzle, it's
just so involved it is. Ifeel sorry for you at the time,
trying to have to keep the trackof all these things. And now there's
a bit of a skip because thatwas the end of April and now it

(48:54):
is Friday, May eighteen. Twoweeks. You could have had at least
twelve relationships in that time. Yeah, I got a letter from Martin Borrowdale.
He had told me that he hadlots of friends at boarding school,
but confessed today that he was lyingand only has a few. He's homesick

(49:19):
and hates it there, poor fella. I feel sorry for it. Yeah,
I was at home sick today.It's not fair. I wanted to
see Patrick, whom I still like. I will have liked him for three
weeks on Monday. Keep going backwith Stuart. You've liked someone who doesn't
know about you for three whole weeks, And Sue is there going like what

(49:44):
top liver? Yep? Tomorrow I'vegot to type out Palm cards and practice
my thing for speech. So speechwould have been speech and drama. Yep,
I did speak drama as well.Was though it would have been your
like your your monologue or something likethat. Yeah, anyway, I must

(50:06):
go seea from the girl who lovesPatrick, Poor Stewie. Justice for Stewie.
Saturday, May twenty sixth, nineteenninety. Well even that's a bit
of a jump between Yeah it isagain, dear Diary, I decided to

(50:29):
keep an eye out for guys today. Is that a thing you had to
make yourself do because by the soundsof it, it's sort of like you're
like the squirrel of guys. Yeah, well, i'd liked at this point.
Probably i'd liked Patrick for about fourweeks. But given that that means
not going out with Yym, thismeans nothing in this universe. Well,

(50:52):
I'm probably thinking if nothing had happenedin that time, maybe it wasn't going
to So you were with Stuart andyour head swiveled to another dude, Like
I'm telling you, it doesn't meananything. But of course, of course
Shona and Wade Leaf came skating.That's shown on my friend from like dancing

(51:16):
and stuff. Okay, brother,and I kind of like Wade. Okay,
Rachel did a bit of matchmaking andfound out that if I asked him
out, he'd say yes. ButI've decided to get to know him better

(51:37):
first. Danger because if you ifit's more than like three days, he
might be gone. It will haveto be through letters mainly and phone calls.
That's because we didn't go to thesame school. If he's allowed to
ring me. Okay, all right, and did your because it was your

(51:59):
friend's brother, wasn't it. Yeah, did she have a say in all
this. Well, okay, mentionedthat in a minute. His birthday is
January twenty third, nineteen seventy seven, so he's only a few months younger
than me. And he goes toGranchester Academy. Ooh fancy. So yeah,

(52:20):
this was a pretty prestigious boys school. He likes computers. He's not
a nerd. He's the leisure suitLarry type. Okay, all right,
can I give you a little hintthe computer guys all like leisastute Larry as
well. There's no distinction there.Yeah. When I told Shona, she

(52:44):
said, wow, I can beyour sister in law. Oh okay,
well so yeah, she's way hardlyokay with it. It can be your
sister in law by lunch. Yeah, Sunday, May twenty seven, nineteen
ninety. The next day, DearDiary, it is eleven ten pm.

(53:05):
I am tired. I have schooltomorrow. So why am I writing?
Because I love life, I loveliving, I love God. I'm going
to Balin Beach for church camp onQueen's Birthday weekend. I hope they don't
make me get up in front ofeveryone and talk. That would be majorly

(53:30):
embarrassing, said the person who wasstoked about dancing in front of the entire
skating rink a few weeks ago.Yeah, our history banquet is tomorrow.
It should be good history bank itbeing let me guess it's a dinner that
you have or a lunch that youhave featuring foods and stuff from different time

(53:51):
periods. Yeah, at lunchtime,yakay, all right, exactly, dance
tomorrow night, dancing tomorrow night.I hope Trevor turns up. I feel
like revving someone. Okay. Thecontext being revving up as in like paying
out on or revving up isn't likeokay, hey, No, revving up

(54:15):
is in yelling at, getting crossat or okay, because Trevor's the one
who breaks your heart many well,was one of the people this year that's
broaken your heart. Yeah, I'min such an ace mood man. Okay,
Well, I'm still thinking of poorStewie sitting there. You know what,

(54:37):
He's probably gone to a pool partyat old mate's house. Can't miserating
in the pool? Pool water hidestheir tears, that's how they feel the
pool up. Maybe the whole poolis just like filled with the tears of
boys whose hearts are broken Olympic size. A few of them now had a

(55:00):
divepool on the site. Yeah,yep, okay. Now we skip a
little bit again to Friday, Junethe eighth, nineteen ninety Big jumps,
but yep, Balin Beach Christian Camp. We got here, Okay, it
was a pretty boring trip. It'sa gross place. I've got to taste

(55:22):
the food yet, okay, sogross as in dirty or gross as in
not Christine Hotel, I'm not sure. But then the next day, Saturday,
June the ninth, nineteen ninety,I said, wrong, idea nice

(55:42):
place, Okay, breakfast soon,so I'll get to taste the food.
So it might have been we gotthere late at night, and so I
couldn't really tell what it was like, but I thought it was a bit
manky or something. Might have beenthat one where you get off the bus
and it's like the a couple ofports around the place where the port's pretty

(56:04):
h but once you get out ofthe port, it's pretty good. So
yeah, you're probably tired and you'relike, oh, is this yit been?
In the morning? You make that'spretty good. Yeah, it's pretty
cool. We get lots of freetime, and we've been playing lots of
volleyball. Okay, I've got togo. There's a prayer thingy on as
you do. Yeah, Sunday Jeanethe tenth, nineteen ninety Great food eight

(56:30):
meat last night, please Mike somuch, I'm going to keep eating it.
So you've been a non meat eaterat the stage or I had been
for a little while and I'd forgottenthat actually till I read that because I'd
read a book and it had mentionedveal calves, oh yeah, and some

(56:52):
bad animal welfare type situations and ithad put me off eating meat for a
little while. Yeah. But yeah, I'm like, oh, okay,
well maybe I'll eat meat again.Sean, this is a different Seawn,
not Sean Fielding. This is avery adult Sean at the camp who was

(57:17):
also boarding. How adult and arewe getting into twelve year old? At
the drive in type of creemy zone. There was these two guys, Sean
and this other guy, who werevisiting from America. They were in their
mid twenties and they were boarding withKimberly's family. So they came along with

(57:37):
this church camp because they were there. It was like a mission trip type
thing. Okay, So Sean drewa cartoon of me and Cleo last night.
It's excellent. He's drawing a properportrait of me today. That he
was very, very clever. He'salso very twenty. Yeah, this is

(57:58):
just hanging out with people church camp. Yeah, okay, not a romantic
interest. Look absolutely fine. Butalso the phrase just hanging out with people
at church camp in the world ofreality means something whole differently. I've heard
the stories, I've read the books. It's no, none of that actually
happened at this camp. Okay,that you know of what happened to you?

(58:20):
Yeah, we get five hours offree time today. Okay, I've
got to go. I didn't bringmy glasses so your eyes were writing or
blurry. Yeah, I's hurting.And now another big skip to Thursday,

(58:43):
June the twenty first, nineteen ninetyOkay, so pound three this year.
Yeah, dear diary, Well it'sthe holidays now it's the winter holidays.
So you've skipped a whole term.Or that church camp happened mid yeah,
because it was a I think itwas Queen's Birthday weekend when it used to

(59:05):
be in June. Yeah, Nowit's the end of June, not the
beginning of June. It's the holidays. Chad is at soccer trials and next
week he'll be at a soccer clinic, so I won't get to see him
much. Everyone is drawing the linesnow, you don't have to say it

(59:25):
out loud. We know. SoChad Matthew is so love sick, the
poor guy. It seems nothing everworks out for him. So he's a
friend I know from church and fromschool, and he also happens to be
Chad's best friend. Okay, allright, they're putting the pieces together,

(59:49):
you get it. Kevin, that'sDeborah Cole's boyfriend. They're still going out.
Kevin is at hockey camp with ChristineSchofield and Deborah is really worried.
Okay, So Christine went to adifferent school but played in the same hockey

(01:00:12):
club as Kevin, and they hada bit of a history. Okay,
yeah, do we get a resolutionon that or is it just a not
sure? I have to find out. Dianne and Gail Walters have been here
since Saturday night. So I mentionedGail a long time ago. She was

(01:00:32):
the friend who had a pretend horse, as well as me having a pretend
horse. Yes, yeah, andthen they moved away, but obviously come
to visit on the holidays. Theyare supposed to be going home this afternoon,
it's past three, but they stillhaven't gone. So that's a pretty

(01:00:57):
long visit popping no Monday, Junetwenty fifth, nineteen ninety still on holidays
maybe I'm not sure. Actually usuallypushed into the first or second week of
July. So yeah, things arereally weird. Matthew Brady likes me again.

(01:01:20):
So that's the Matthew I just mentionedbefore. Yep, so he had
had a crush on me on andoff that year. Carol Eden likes Chad,
but she's not getting him. Okay, all right is Chad? Or
Yeah? I'm going out with Chad. There is some excellent news though.

(01:01:45):
Chad is still at trials instead ofsoccer clinic because he was chosen to try
out for the state team. Okay. There are only twenty three guys trying
out, which means they only haveto drop about seven. Hopefully he won't
be one of them. He getsback on Wednesday. I can't wait to
see him. Okay. He actuallywent on to play for the SOCCERUS Okay

(01:02:15):
for a little bit. Yeah,so he was very talented. There's so
many innuendos running through my head nowthat I'm I'm not going to go there.
Okay, it's just so weird.One of my good friends likes my
boyfriend, and my boyfriend's best friendlikes me. Wouldn't it be just great

(01:02:38):
if Matthew and Carol suddenly developed agreat liking for each other? Okay?
Yeah, I'm just so scared oflosing Chad. I very much considered him
out of my league, but somehowended up going out with him anyway.

(01:03:00):
Okay, yeah, was this likeyou both were talking quite often. This
wasn't you. This wasn't a parasocialrelationship where you were going out with him
and he didn't know. Oh no, he knew. I started going out
before the holidays. Okay. We'vebeen going out two weeks tomorrow and I've
only seen him two days out ofthose two weeks. Ah, okay,

(01:03:22):
yeah, because he's been at soccerstuff. Yep, it's not much,
is it. No? I hopehe still likes me. Well, to
be fair, I hope you stilllike him, because two weeks you get
that like the seven year rich atwo weeks twitch with you? Yeah,
gee, I need to talk tosomeone, not Kimberly or Deborah or Rachel,

(01:03:47):
someone who can give me the answers, someone like Jesus or me or
my diary. That's where we're goingto leave it. Yeah, interesting question.
Would have we been friends at thisif I'd met you at this stage
of life? If it all synkedup in ages and stuff? I mean,

(01:04:12):
I don't see why not? Whatwere you like then? What kind
of stuff did you like? No? Not like not this? It was
I was basically prototypical, like yeah, nerd in between, I don't know.
I can't describe myself. Did youlike computer set? I did?
But it's it's it's it's hard tosort of describe what I liked because I

(01:04:34):
was such a chameleon between the differentgroups. Did you skate then? I
did go skating? Yes, thereyou go. Every boy that went skating
I liked so and according to oneguy, everyone's had a crack. So
yeah, who knows. You knowwhat I would have been, dude numbers.

(01:04:56):
I would be standing there with ticketsseven hundred and fifty three and okay,
or I would be I'm just gonnastep out and go get a slushy
with the killer Python and missed myspot, mister killer pythons in the in
the slushy, not that the slurpy, not slurpy, the blue dog slushy

(01:05:18):
blue with a bit of red.So it was the pebble ice not the
ye. I've always wanted to slushy. I always wanted a slushy machine.
Yeah. Did you ever get one? No? But I worked at a
place that had a slushy machine.Yeah, And I used to pull myself

(01:05:39):
big thing of slushy and get vanillaice cream and put it on top,
and it was young nice. Thereused to be a thing where, you
know those bars of you can getthem from the supermarket, those bars villa
or ice cream. Mm hmm.There used to be a thing where you
could get a soft served ice creamin the bottom of a slurpy cup and
you eat it, it turns intoa milky. Five years before that,

(01:06:02):
I was putting those bars of icecream in the bottom and slurpies and doing
that. They've come out like aspider. It was kind of like a
spider, but it was more Ithink Wendy's had them where it was the
blue icy slushies with the vanilla icecream on it. Yeah, but I
was doing that with the little barsyou used to get so much so that

(01:06:26):
seven or eleven did it a coupleof months ago where they had get bars
of in the bottom of a slushy. I missed that. H yeah,
not really. I guess you're justgoing to have to make me one someday.
Somehow it didn't work because it stayedto the bars stayed too hard,

(01:06:48):
so you couldn't. Yeah, itbasically drinking slush and then have you need
soft serve or you need the barto be really really soft, which these
ones what used to be? Yeah, Okay, well I wonder what's going
to happen next time? Mid Chad? Well does he last the week?

(01:07:10):
Is the question? So you youhad a you had a what do they
call them? Not apprenticeships? Youhad an internships. It was high turnover,
yes, extremely all right, Well, that's a lot to sit and
digest about all the different new namesthat have come in and these new characters,

(01:07:30):
especially Chad and Chad's mate and yourmate, and how it's all it's
a four cross, it's a fourway crossover of it's a love square it
is, or it's a love rectangle. Maybe like a not a pentagon,

(01:07:51):
but they call them trapezoid love mbecause there's two people who are very close
to you and other two people arevery far away from each other. All
right, well, next week wewill see what happens with this part.
This nineteen ninety is so far awild year of love, so it is.

(01:08:13):
Yes, we will get through ittogether. All right, Well,
thank you everyone. Do you wantto mention about our Instagram? Yeah,
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(01:08:35):
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(01:08:59):
I have jammed out it several timesand had a good old listen. It's
good to have. It's it's goodchill music if you put it on when
you're doing things during the day andit's nicely in the back. I've got
a few more I need to addto it, actually, so I need
to get to and do that,all right, cool, very good,
all right, Besty. Well yeah, let's wrap this one up and let's
kick on to the next one.Bestie, Love you, see you then,

(01:09:23):
love you bye.